Re: JAVA coding environment

Dr. Syd Nicholson wrote:

Hi Joe,

AMD 1.5GZ with 1GB RAM, 40GB disk. And - Yes, I have thought that is it
cheaper just to dump hardware and buy new when things go wrong with Windows.
-- But then again, its not very green, and why should MS get another sale
because something goes wrong. Why should they benefit. Besides I would have
hundreds of Laptops if I took this approach!!

You upgrade when it makes sense from a business perspective. My previous laptop was nearly four years old; ancient in terms of computer hardware. I only recently upgraded it because it made sense. Remember, too, that you can use an old laptop as a console for a new IBM i (which is where the old laptop went).

But if you choose to use old hardware, or an incompatible OS, then don't blame the application. I can run multiple copies and/or versions of the Rational products simultaneously on my workstation and keep them running for days at a time.

I have been with PCs since the first ones - even before that with wee Apple
systems - indeed even before that in the 1960s with Fortran IID. Nothing
evolves to get better from the point of view of failures. After all these
years I now just get sick, fed up, angry and frustrated. Round and round in
circles - achieving nothing, just the same s%*t every time. Oh for a decent
OS on a PC like i5/OS. Perhaps I getting too old and grumpy for this.

I come from a similar background. I've been involved with lots of commercial firsts involving IBM midranges and microcomputers (including using an Apple as a gateway between a Series/1 and a System/3). I've never been impressed with Microsoft software - software that bad would never have gotten out of any of the places where I worked - but as far as I've seen each release of the Rational tooling has gotten better, faster and more stable.

Joe